Forged By Faith

Jeremiah 8:13 NIV The crumble In truth it’s something clearly already underway. It’s this reality in which God gives us our way, our say, an agreement to the kind of appeasement we seek, think we want, are sure we do. Indeed, even today He is letting loose upon we lost the cost of our continual refusal to at first comprehend all He is and from then appreciate all that means. Indeed, He is giving us exactly what we’ve all spent our lives asking for and will continue to do so until the very fabric of humanity and the fragility in which exists our existence simply cannot take anymore. He will leave us alone until we’re so alone that we finally realize all that He is and all that He does and all that it means in regard to all that He’s promised us. Unfortunately that realization will prove to come upon most too late I’m afraid. For these days to doubt and deny and disbelieve and that the sum of literally everything that even seems to ask or require anything has become our natural reaction ...

Matthew 25:40 NIV The least of these So many times it still seems we see only a necessity in seeking the favor, honor, friendship of royalty. We’ve become so amazed by the grandeur and awe of nobility and governance and power that we almost instinctively assume that those who hold such positions are those that we should seek to be like and to get there by showing how much we adore them. We even plaster our cars in stickers showing off our support of whatever suit happened to capture our heart and win our vote. Lost perpetually in the process of people pleasing people and that through pride and opulence as such are the very uppermost ideals held by all. Indeed, for the same lie we’ve all fallen and daily fall. It’s that one which tells us that there’s something of a hierarchy in life and that, however it may be that we and our pride may measure it, whatever the different levels may mean, it all aims to accomplish the very same thing. And that is to find for us what are those ways in whi...

Matthew 25:35 NIV Give to receive And that unto the least of these. And why? Well, because contrary to common confusion the point of this life was never about what we had or what we hope to have. It was never about how we feel or what we then expect to happen or not so as to ensure that we end up feeling however we want. It wasn’t to look out for number one or to even consider ourselves second. No, the point of this life, especially one lived within this faith, it was for our to find ways to trade places with those who are in last place in this place in which all of life is a race that nearly everyone else is running backwards. All because nearly all of us are down here every day trying our best to make sure our lives are always the same. Indeed, we’re all trained to endure struggle, suffering, shame so long as it means that we’re somehow better for it. And don’t get me wrong, there is a certain manner that such is in truth a very good, a very helpful, a very healthy thing to do. And I...

Matthew 12:34 NIV Fix it And yes, that as is to be done through only the emptying thereof as the fact has become that of which we have filled is the same as that of which we are seen. And for what we are seen is the same as what we can likely see, and that simply because we are all quite amazingly the same even down to our being for now still found upon a ground from which we’ve all gleaned and thus gained all we’ve given way to letting in into that place from which every word spoken starts along its journey unto the hearing of those who hear then all about all we are. But I suppose that such is quite possibly the perfect question that must be asked before everything better becomes anything we can become: Who are we? And granted, that is quite the loaded question as it seems always asked within what’s always been the very judgmental tone in which it’s asked. After all, it all but demands at least some degree of judgement for anyone to even consider asking it. And yet this becomes the p...

Romans 7:17 NIV Am I me? And if so, who am I? And if who I am isn’t who I know I ought to be then why agree to for another day stay the me that I don’t want to be? And if I don’t want to be who I’ve become then I must agree that who I’ve been isn’t who I was made to be. Because for us to agree that we’re not who we could be, the better that we thus should be, is to also agree that there remains that better that we haven’t ever been before. And if there is a better me than what I’ve become then there must have been another One who had a better idea, a more worthy ideal than those idols I’ve both bought and become. For surely we wouldn’t be able to see, feel, hear or hold any recollection of anything we didn’t want to have to admit we’ve come to be if not there was He who at first, and from there, never quite so agreed to have let us come this far from who He created us to remain. This is regret. It’s this feeling as met within hindsight helping us to finally see the many things we’ve co...